The outbreak of Covid-19 epidemic has a prolonged impact on global economic activities. In
recent years, many scholars have been motivated to estimate the effects of Covid-19 shock …

There is little consensus on the role of cultural distance in exports. Studies have shown that
positive or negative effects of cultural distance on exports are attributed to the substitution or …

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional
proxies for cross country cultural differences, such as common language; ethnicity; genetic …

Seaports and their efficiency remain essential for the success of international trade globally.
Notwithstanding this outcome, there is no empirical evidence on how seaport efficiency …

This paper investigates the effects of cultural proximity on countries' participation in global
value chains (GVCs) using a large country-pair dataset with 60,910 observations from 1996 …

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) increasingly feature a variety of provisions related to
economic and social rights (ESR), environmental protection (EP), and civil and political …

This paper disentangles the impacts of cultural proximity on cross‐border banking flows,
using large country‐pair data from 1996 to 2019. On applying the gravity model with the …

The question of whether the imposition of economic sanctions impairs or nurtures cultural
affinity remains controversial. In effect, this paper investigates the effect of economic …

This paper studies bilateral cultural preferences as an asymmetric dimension of cultural
proximity and estimates their effect on greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI). We derive a …

The interrelations between trade, FDI and migrations have an important impact on the global
economy that resulted in the golden age of globalization at first and in a process of …